The more time passes the more I realize how worthless the google toolbar PageRank is. The first thing that pissed me off is when I started a website which had a pagerank before any kind of links were built. I did a backlink analysis on Yahoo, because Google’s link: query is completely worthless. The result was no links. Since I was using a virtual host I realized that that page rank must be left over from another website.

Last night PageRank hick up was  ridiculous. I was about to write a great post on Affiliate marketing when I realized that the PR was up to 5 on this site. Of course I went to check my clients websites to see if their page rank has moved. The PR was all over the place. I went to check my own websites and it was a similar story. Within 20 minutes all the PageRanks reverted back to what they were previously.

Was this just an error on Google’s part? Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Is this a sign of something bigger to come?

Google looks to have updated its Page Rank… This blog is a 4… YEAYYY

By the way it is 10:30 Pacific Jan 11th… when i discovered this

Thanks to all of you who sent me links :)

Before I get into the details I will have to give credit where credit is due. I first found out about this reading John Andrews SEO Blog who pointed me to a blog by Google Engineer Matt Cutts . I stopped reading this D-Bags blog ever since he started bloging about his queer Halloween costume and his boring Thanksgiving. So I started reading Matt Cutts post about why its bad to have paid review posts which manipulate Google Ranking.

Begginers: For those of you who do not know how Google works, they rely on anchor text in links to determine how a page is ranked (along with other variables) One secondary market is the selling of links with specific anchor text.

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